I love to sit next to the sunny window as I did this afternoon, reading for school, listening to the sirens and subway, church bells playing "Abide With Me" and "Ave Maria," drinking chai to warm my bones.
Gilbert Blythe is in the 2nd season of Slings and Arrows! I've seen about three Canadian productions in my life, and he's in two of them! What a strange experience to see his reddish hair and hear his aged voice (not old, just older). Where have all those years gone? He belongs in the Mark Hamill/Seinfeld characters category; no other role shall suit them.
I read on my grande Starbucks coffee cup yesterday a quotation from a musician whose name escapes me. A paraphrase: the most important thing I've learned in my career is to not let anyone intimidate me, because everyone's experienced pain, loneliness, and weakness at some point. As someone who is not very smart nor well-equipped in many areas of life, I've had to embrace this mindset wholeheartedly. If I look a fool to someone who should intimidate me, then I look a fool. Most of the time I avoid people anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Last week I helped a fellow disabled student read her homework, and I'll repeat the task this week. I enjoyed it because it felt like bedtime storytelling, only the content was more sophisticated and my subject highlighted important points as she read along.
"fellow disabled student"? laura, you never told me!
wait, is he in the first disc of the season, because that's all I've seen. I'm trying to place this Lionel character, but I can't remember their names.
i think he's in the first disc, and i think his name is lionel (although i can't remember because all i could think was "gilbert! gilbert!"). he's the indigenous playwright they hire to write and direct the "canadian" play, and he falls in love with the admin. assistant.
"disabled fellow student" maybe?